Andersen Ultimate not working for me
I went from a Reese 16K slider to the Andersen ultimate. My trailer was very stable with the Reese, with the Andersen the trailer is constantly moveing around. It is bad enough that can feel it and it...
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MFL wrote:Searching_Ut wrote:
After this weekend, I've gone from pleased with my Andersen Ultimate to being now a downright super fan. I had to run up to ND to rescue the Son in Law who has been working the oil fields up there living out of a presidential suites triple axle fifth wheel.
Set up the Andersen hitch to max height initially since I had to back in at a pretty good angle with the truck on a fairly steep incline and the trailer sunk in the frozen ground. No problem hooking up, and the ease of adjusting the hitch was greatly appreciated. Once we got out to pavement after 3 or so miles of torn up frozen mud road, we readjusted the hitch and pulled the 650 miles to Rawlins through high winds, freezing rain, extremely icy roads for a couple hundred miles, and up to 6 plus inches of snow in whiteout conditions on the road from Casper to Rawlins. We saw dozens of vehicles off the road and a half dozen or so semis that had lost it and ended up in the ditch as an indicator of how bad some of the roads were. Even though I was probably overweight for a SRW truck the setup handled beautifully in the wind, through the curves, and on the ice. The lack of slop and good solid hookup worked like a charm.
That is a good testimonial for the truck and the Andersen hitch. Conditions couldn't have been worse, nor the terrain any tougher.
Sounds like the SIL is lucky to have the FIL too!
Jerry
I will say the SIL worked his Tush off on this trip. Had to jack each wheel up one at a time so we could fill under them with gravel since I couldn't get the traction to pull him out of the ground even with chains. Then he had to later change a tire in freezing rain before we even got out of ND. We got lucky to only blow one since they were 10 years old if I read the date codes right. Also had to manually crank in one slide. I don't think either one of us will ever try to take on a 1875 mile winter road trip on a 3 day weekend again. That said it was fun racing the snowmobiles down the road through west Yellowstone on the way up there so it wasn't all bad.
